Well its been a little while.
Work is pretty busy, but I won't get in to the specifics now.
We've been testing a new ink, and its working really, really well.
For anyone familiar with tattoos you might know that the black ink is "thinner" than most of the other pigments, in part because black is such a strong colour you don't need much of it to get a good line. This applies to our acid dyes too. Yellow is one of our best colours because its thin, it spreads well across the fabric and run smoothly through the printer heads.
Our blue however was a very heavy bodied or thick pigment and was almost constantly clogging our printer heads, forcing us to clean excessively in order to avoid those nasty lines often seen in digital printing.
Thankfully the Swiss have sent us some fancy new variant, and we can't get enough of it.
Aside from that I'm developing a real interest in pattern design, and have been watching Print & Pattern which has some fantastic work. We're slowing down a teenie bit at work which may allow me to explore this further.
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